Re: [QUESTION] init/main.c

>ticks = jiffies; while (ticks == jiffies); ticks = jiffies; ? jiffies is updated by an interrupt routine, I think. -- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not for attachments) big-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [QUESTION] init/main.c

jiffies is updated by a timer interrupt once every 1/HZ seconds (HZ==100 for i386). The code intents to start running at the time right after jiffies was incremented to improve the correctness of the delay calibration loop. The reason why jiffies is read later is to get the value after the chan

[QUESTION] init/main.c

At function calibrate_delay(void) in init/main.c, I dont understand this code: